Doll Making updates

Hey guys! To be honest I got lazy to make a new post, I know shame on me. Currently my head is on a little hiatus mostly because the nose and mouth have been stressing me out. I will of course resume sculpting, however it may be some time till updates will happen. Anyways, here are some photos from my progress so far that was from weeks ago!

I cut open the head to see if I could open up the eye area, but the head was so thick and I didn't have the right tools so below was the end result.

I do admit, I was a little stuck on how to give the eyes a little shape. I ended up just craving around the eyes to make deeper eye wells, and then added two balls of clay to indicate where the eyes should go like the photo below.

After those two balls dried, I added thin stripes of clay around the balls to define the eye shape.

His glossy forehead...shines stronger than Saitama's.....the clay was added there to bring it out more as his forehead had a steep slope to it. 

Screwing around with the eyes

Comparing the head to it's reference, a lot has definitely changed

 
The amount of clay I shaved off the head.

The nose got reworked until I arrived to the photo below. Looking back on it, I kinda wished I has kept it.

This was the last point I got up to for his head to look somewhat completed. His chin shape changed a lot, and that was mostly due to me craving is down, AND I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT TO MENTION THIS, but yea I added his head back on and removed the core.

This is what happened when I destroyed his jaw... my reasoning for it was only because to fix his lips and profile in general, as the lips came out too much.



That's pretty much it as far as updates go, my little hiatus should be over soon so that's a plus since I think that I have a better idea as to how to approached his nose and lips. Thank you for reading, adn have a wonderful day!!

Doll Making

Hey again! I mentioned before that I'm going to start making dolls, well that's happening now. So I'll just show the images captured while sculpting. The name I've chosen for my BJD company is MadhuDoll. In sanskrit, mahdu means sweet, so all the dolls are going to be named after various sweets, pastries, and candies. The first doll I've begun work on is MelonPOP. His facial features were inspired by various KPOP idols.

His name is actually inspired by Melona popsicles, and this is where i realize that I've been calling him by the wrong name ( ; _ ; ). It's not entirely the wrong name though, he was suppose to be called MelonPOP first, but as I was drawing pink looked better than the green....

Sooo the base is comprised of newspaper, which was wrap in aluminum foil and then covered in cling wrap so the it would be easier to remove. Well at least I hope it would be.

One amazing find was that LaDoll has actual paper fibers within the clay, well that does make sense since it is a paper clay............I actually thought it was stone clay because of the packaging

Formed a horrifying face shape, but it did help to get a decent face length

Made a skull because why not. Although, the skull did help with the placing of the facial muslces

A long noodle shaped thing helped to shape the nose, but my carelessness knocked it off..........

 

To be honest, I was fucking around with the head at this point , however I did proceeded to add guide lines where the finer details should be. Well that's all the sculpting updates I have for now, hopefully more to come tomorrow!

AND FINALLY AN OMAKE: As I was sculpting, unbeknownst to me, massive amounts off clay bits fell upon my keyboard...I should take more precautions for the next time I sculpt.

Ramblings

     Hey guys, sorry for not posting anything for months, just going to let you know what is going to happen to this blog. First off, all of the old post will be deleted except the eye making and wig making posts as well as faceups. The photos on Flickr will stay though. Secondly I will be changing the blogs format, which I guess shouldn't be a surprise because I do constantly change it. Thirdly, as far as my doll characters go, I've decided to completely trash the idea of giving the character a doll form to be honest, I wasn't satisfied with having a doll I couldn't get right no matter how much I tried. And I've also been teasing you with other characters but I don't see much hope for them either as I made all of the characters  relationships mostly specific to Cel. So yeaaaaa, those are pretty much the updates I have to show regarding this blog and my BJD.

     If you guys have been following me on Instagram, natsukip_madhudoll, then you would already know that I'm going to start making dolls. So far I've got a few of the supplies, but I'm waiting on the clay since it should be arriving today. I hope I can do a good job since it is my intention to sell them, and mostly because I not really a sculptor. And thank you guys for reading my kinda crappy blog, it's been a pleasure and hope guys continue to read it in the future!!